Dan Swano – extreme metal legend

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Dan Swano for additional personal pictures.

Thanks to Vic Records for the promo picture.

Dan Swano is a very busy man but he had the kindness to do this interview with metal-rules.com despite his busy schedule. As every one probably already knows, Swano is an icon within the extreme metal genre and the founder and owner of the studio Unisound Studio. REINVENTING THE PAST is the name of the new Odyssey album where Swano have covered his favourite songs into metal versions. As an extra bonus have he also threw in the Odyssey mini CD from 1999 along with the disc.

Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Swanö

Swedish musician and producer Dan Swanö (EDGE OF SANITY; NIGHTINGALE) published an early UNISOUND-studio guestbook online; it is from 1997 and features for example entries on Katatonia-, Opeth-, Nightingale- and many more recordings which took place during that time.
Now the guestbook is available for the first time to the public, as it was recently digitalized. Many “liner notes” by Dan on the recording process back then were added.

Dan Swanö’s UNISOUND-studio existed for the most part of the 1990s, was closed for some years and reopened in 2005.

About the guestbook, Dan writes:
“In 1994 I introduced the guestbook at Unisound Recordings. It quickly became a hit with the bands that recorded with me. Some members seemed to take their guestbook pages more seriously than their music!

This was an early form of a homepage. Every band knew that the others would look at their page, and often left messages or insults for the others to read when they returned for another recording.

The first guestbook to be made available to world is from 1996/1997. It is a bit more luxurious than the previous one (That will be unleashed later in 2011).  Most of the pages have Polaroid photos. The film cost a bloody fortune, but looking back, it was so worth it!

Enjoy!!”

Guestbook cover:

UNISOUND-studio guestbook cover

Source:
http://www.unisound.se/
http://www.unisound.se/book/black/

Dan Swano

Dan Swano is one of the living legends in the extreme metal genre and he has always been a hero for me and many more. I got in touch with Swano and asked him if he was willing to do an interview with metal-rules.com which he was. So here come the final result, it’s a long interview with Swano that includes all you need to know about Swano’s career which includes numerous releases with Nightingale, Edge Of Sanity, Bloodbath and Total Terror to mention a few. Swano is also a highly acclaimed producer and mixer which we also talked about. Swano has also released the debut album with crust punk band Total Terror this year which is an album that he originally recorded back in the late 90′s. Here is the first official interview with the amazing Dan Swano in metal-rules.com.

Interview by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks so much to Dan Swano for doing this interview with me, and for providing me with the promo pictures of himself.

Thanks to Vic Records for providing me with the promo pictures of Total Terror.

Read the rest of this entry »

Evergrey

NightInGale

Nosturi Helsinki

The 21st of March 2008

Having a metal gig before the easter break with two Swedish metal names, NightInGale and Evergrey, appeared to be both interesting and temptating because of the line-up. Both bands definitely enjoy a more true fan based following in Finland. Above all, NightInGale definitely draws some expected interest from the progessive genre, but of course Evergrey has the fan-legion of their own.

Read the rest of this entry »